How simple iPhone photography and Photoshop layer effects create convincing props and graphics for music video For The Northernettes new single "Danger", a video has been produced depicting the group as fugitive femmes fatales, on the run from the law. We were asked to contribute some prop newspapers, containing police photography of the three girls
Cosmic, angry, soulful, spiritual, political – twelve great soul music album covers As a music lover and into the visual arts, record sleeves have always been something I've taken a lot of interest in. I love classic soul music, and what I like about the way these are packaged, is that in a huge variety
“Fifty Bucks an album…they loved it, thought it was modern, they thought it went with the music… one or two colors to work with at that time and some outrageous graphics!” Between 1955 & 1967, Reid Miles was the designer at jazz label Blue Note Records. Known as a label that let their
Back in early December, the Tate Gallery’s website crashed due to huge demand placed on it by music fans trying to get tickets to the Kraftwerk shows to be held in the Turbine Hall – 8 shows on consecutive nights, each focusing on a different album from their history. With only 700-odd people allowed in
David Bowie’s sudden and very welcome return last week reminded me of this; Belgium’s Soulwax who outdid themselves with this amazing hour-long mix of Bowie songs. What really sets it apart though is the dreamlike video, taking us through his life, times, and many alter egos. As Drowned in Sound pointed out, it also evokes
Gil Scott-Heron I’ve long been a fan of the late Gil Scott-Heron, and on my last birthday was lucky to receive this book from my friend Nick. It’s a memoir, both of his upbringing as a black child in the Deep South of the 1950s, and of his musical career – and uses Stevie Wonder’s
